Confronting Climate Crises through Education
Reading Our Way Forward
Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Biological Sciences, Ecology, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Reference & Language, Education & Teaching
| Author: | Rebecca L. Young, David W. Orr | ISBN: | 9781498535977 |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books | Publication: | October 15, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Lexington Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | Rebecca L. Young, David W. Orr |
| ISBN: | 9781498535977 |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books |
| Publication: | October 15, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Lexington Books |
| Language: | English |
Confronting Climate Crises through Education: Reading Our Way Forward envisions the responsibility of public education to engage a citizenry more prepared to address the challenges of a changing world. Young advocates a paradigm shift that positions ecopedagogy as the central organizing principle of curriculum and assessment design. Each chapter outlines ways literature can serve as a cultural lens for examining the complex patterns of contexts behind our most pressing climate concerns, including potential solutions these patterns may illuminate. A focus on fiction and non-fiction exemplars that can provide such a lens illustrates practical steps educators can take to develop instruction around the immediately relevant environmental crises we are experiencing and to inspire more ecologically conscious, globally-minded problem-solvers prepared to confront them.
Confronting Climate Crises through Education: Reading Our Way Forward envisions the responsibility of public education to engage a citizenry more prepared to address the challenges of a changing world. Young advocates a paradigm shift that positions ecopedagogy as the central organizing principle of curriculum and assessment design. Each chapter outlines ways literature can serve as a cultural lens for examining the complex patterns of contexts behind our most pressing climate concerns, including potential solutions these patterns may illuminate. A focus on fiction and non-fiction exemplars that can provide such a lens illustrates practical steps educators can take to develop instruction around the immediately relevant environmental crises we are experiencing and to inspire more ecologically conscious, globally-minded problem-solvers prepared to confront them.
